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If I Stay

author: Gayle Forman rating: 2/10 genre: young adult romance best for ages: 8 to 10 — I would not have started reading this book if not for my language arts…

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Keeper of the Lost Cities (series)

Now, I get why some people would like KotLC. It’s a quick, easy read and it has a lot of romantic drama, no matter how unnecessary and boring. You don’t…

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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

Yet this book does no more than that. It goes into excruciating detail for every single data point, every trivial piece of information, to the point at which I was…

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The Hunger Games Trilogy

Although they may not be the best books of all time, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay are skillfully crafted pieces of work that keep readers on their toes…

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All the Light We Cannot See

written by Anthony Doerr rated 10 / 10 Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. Anthony Doerr…

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The Killer Angels

Author | Michael Shaara Rating | 10 Recently, I’ve been reviewing many books on the Second World War. Now we’re moving back to the 1860s, to the American Civil War.…

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A Rebel in Auschwitz

Author | Jack Fairweather Rating | 9 As a sequel to the World War II series, let’s review A Rebel in Auschwitz, this biography on Witold Pilecki. In contrast to…

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The Book Thief

Author | Markus Zusak Rating | 10 There’s something about historical fiction that’s fascinating. Maybe it’s the perfect combination of fact and fiction. Maybe it’s the connections we make to…

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